Show I What Does The Bible S Say y By REV LEO E E. E RUBEL An old oid story tells ells of or a church member about to 10 leave for work In a distant lumber camp and be beIng being be- be ing warned that thai it 11 was a rough camp and nd that the crew would make it 11 hard for him Upon his return several months later tut tw was asked how he made out and replied I 1 made out Just fine they never found out 1 was a Christian IT IS becoming increasingly obvious in the world that we live in today that far tar too many church members so-called so Christians are following the very same pattern pattern pattern pat pat- tern of ot hiding from the world the fact that they are church members and Christians at least in name The Bible makes It clear that members of ot the Body of or Christ and nd members of called so-called Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian churches ought to stand out in the crowd that they should be different than all who are not in fellowship with Christ This the Bible says in Psalm 1 I 2 1 Blessed is the man that not in the counsel of ot the ungodly nor in the way of ot sinners Nor in the seat of ot the scornful But his delight is Inthe in inthe inthe the Law of the Lord and in His IUs HisLaw HisLaw Law doth he meditate day and night THE BIBLE says Let your light so shine before men men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven heaven Matt 5 5 16 Jesus would here indicate that the life lite of a Christian should be such as asto asto asto to make It 11 obvious to all just what he is a Christian glorifying glorifying glorify glorify- ing God with a life Ute of righteous righteous- ness The world expects such a life lUe from Christians It expects them to be different A young Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian once went to a night club with the avowed intention of witnessing for Christ He tried but found it difficult to give a testimony about Christ in such surroundIngs surround surround- ings HOWEVER he decided to make one last attempt Dancing with a ayoung ayoung ayoung young lady he asked her Are you a Christian She answered No are you He was glad to tor r reply ply Yes hoping it 11 would open the way for tor his testimony but in r response she stopped dancing looked him in the eyes and with witha a punctuation of ot profanity asked Then what are you doing here The Bible says Our Savior Jesus Christ gave ave Himself for tor forus forus us that He might redeem us fr from m all iniquity and purify purity unto H seH a peculiar people zeal- zeal 04 9 pf t g 21 |